Nobody would live in it afterward, or go near it by night, and most people even gave it a wide berth in the daytime.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

When settlement expanded afresh after the Indians were driven away many private estates gradually arose to follow the industrial routine of those which had been called particular.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

And at a marriage party each guest is supplied with grain and cooks it himself, but everybody will eat with the bride and bridegroom as a special concession to their position.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

But it is an old Spanish town, quaint and picturesque as Spanish towns are apt to be, with twenty thousand inhabitants, in which the Spanish element, though subject to another and more powerful element, gives a distinct flavor to the place.
— from Gibraltar by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

That is, it would have economic as well as political functions, although it would not necessarily carry on any more productive enterprises (gas, water, house-construction, abbatoirs) than do municipalities at the present time.
— from The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing

Lord Salisbury said: "It must be distinctly understood that these payments are made purely ex gratia and having regard to the special circumstances of this particular case.
— from Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War by Robert Granville Campbell

Contemporaneously with the formation of the Althorp Collection, the Duke of Roxburghe built a library, which was one of the finest and most perfect ever got together.
— from The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

As long ago as 1688 Jacob Walter wrote a musical piece entitled "Gallina et Gallo," in which the hen was delineated in this theme: Listen View Lilypond while the cock had the upper voice in the following example, his clear challenge sounding above the cackling of his mate:
— from How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel

2. Whole nations have enjoyed sovereignty each in its own turn, as the Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, whose turns the lot of time so rolled around that one was destroyed by another.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut